Robert Kuttner

Influential Liberal Magazine May Close

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: The Backstory, Robert Kuttner, Ezra Klein, Kit Rachlis, Harold Meyerson, Josh Marshall, The American Prospect, Matt Yglesias, American Prospect, Paul Starr, Magazines, Media News

The American Prospect, an influential liberal politics and policy magazine, could shut its doors at the end of May unless the nonprofit publication ra...

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Republican Truth and Real Truth: GSEs and the Housing Bubble

David Coates | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Fannie Mae, Joe Nocera, Newt Gingrich, Gses, Mark Zandi, Freddie Mac, Community Reinvestment Act, Countrywide Financial, Republican Presidential Primary, Housing Bubble, Rick Sanorum, Morgenson-Rosner, Wallison, Politics News

The main rewrite now underway in their twice-weekly televised clashes is a rewrite on housing finance.

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The Krugman/Stiglitz Army Is on the March (and It's Too Late for Michael Bloomberg to Stop It)

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Jacob Hacker, Robert Kuttner, Jobs Crisis, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Reich, James Galbraith, Michael Bloomberg, Krugman-Stiglitz Army, Finanacial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Kuttner Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Dylan Ratigan, Occupy Movement, Zuccotti Park, Lawrence Lessig, Nouriel Roubini Financial Crisis, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Krugman Stiglitz, Wall Street, Joseph Stiglitz, Occupy, Cornell West, Krugman Economy, Paul Krugman, Bill Mckibben, Simon Johnson, Jeff Madrick, Occupy Wall St, Krugman's Army, Naomi Klein, Dean Baker, Politics News

Whether or not the the #Occupy Wall Street protesters explicitly adopt policy proposals or only generate political energy for the spirit of them, the Krugman/Stiglitz Army is at last on the march.

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"JOBS FIRST" -- Starting 'Labor' Day, Obama Can Turn Tables on GOP

Mark Green | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Rob Borosage, Robert Reich, President Obama, Debt Ceiling, 2012 Election, Rep. Eric Cantor, Speaker Boehner, Jared Bernstein. Super Joint Committee, Arianna Huffington, Democratic National Committee, Grover Norquist, Nyt-Cbs, Politics News

On Labor Day, President Obama should announce a "Jobs First" program. Namely, spend $300 billion more starting now to spur consumer demand in exchange for $300 billion in reduced spending in 2014. Jobs first. Cuts later.

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A President's Choice: Resist Wall Street's 'Shock Doctrine' or Keep Listening to the Usual Suspects

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, Shock Doctrine, Wall Street, Centrism, 2010 Elections, Deficit Commission, Pseudo-Centrism, Paul Begala, Mark Penn, Brendan Nyhan, Barack Obama, Robert Kuttner, Politics News

To win elections Democrats need to get the economy moving, and you can't do that in a "centrist" way. They should compromise when they must, but this time they need to make it clear that they are compromising.

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Not Just Jobs -- Good Jobs

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Labor Day, Unemployment Rate, Third World America, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Jobs, Politics News

The economy not only has a scarcity of jobs, but a shortage of good jobs. And while Republicans would resist legislating a serious public jobs program, the administration should fight for one anyway.

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This Week: Obama's Deficit Commission or Pete Peterson's?

Roger Hickey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Fiscal Summit, Robert Rubin, Roger Hickey, Fiscal Crisis, Jobs, Budget Deficit, Peter Orszag, Alan Greenspan, Campaign for America's Future, Peter G. Peterson, Heidi Hartmann, Dean Baker, Business News

Pete Peterson's summit is designed to stampede President Obama's new deficit commission (which meets the day before, for the first time) into adopting their version of fiscal austerity.

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Simpson's Social Security Video Rant: Why It's Important

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Your Future Eating Catfood, Robert Kuttner, Erskine Bowles, Social Security, Naomi Klein, Deficit Commission, Alan Simpson, Your Future, Alex Lawson, Politics News

It's frightening to consider the implications of Simpson's reaction - the fierceness, the ideological drive, and the closed-mindedness. Remember, his Commission has been entrusted with determining your financial future.

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Weekly Audit: Financial Reform Makes Headway, Jobs And Social Security In Jeopardy

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Debtor's Prisons, The American Prospect, Social Security, Derivatives, Annie Lowrey, Jobs, Bernie Sanders, The Nation, Volcker Rule, Unemployment Rate, Alternet, Deficit, Laura Flanders, Wall Street Reform, Unemployment, Economy, The Washington Independent, Home News

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Two critical Wall Street reforms, once declared dead by U.S. megabanks, are suddenly close to Congressional ...

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IMF Protesters Try to Disrupt Cambridge University Address by Strauss-Kahn

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Auerback, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Robert Kuttner, George Soros, Yves Smith, Joseph Stiglitz, Adair Turner, James Galbraith, Rob Johnson, John Shattuck, Kings College, Imf, Simon Johnson, Lawrence Mishel, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Politics News

IMF Executive Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is "cool under fire", as Central European University President John Shattuck said when introducing him, and didn't break his stride during his presentation at Kings College, University of Cambridge.

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Baby Boomers, Fiscal Peril, and the Agenda of Pete Peterson's Summit

Brent Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laurence Kotlikoff, Social Security, Entitlements, Robert Kuttner, Pete Peterson, Medicare, Baby Boomers, Blackstone Group, Warren Buffet, Pcpf, Politics News

Warren Buffet has wisely observed that the proposed fiscal crisis due to entitlement spending does not take into full consideration expansion of the economy over the coming years.

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Law and Order: AIG

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Finreg, Robert Kuttner, Pwc, Standard, Financial Reform, Business News

The DoJ announced last week that there would be no indictments in the collapse of AIG. Nobody's guilty? That's getting it backward. It's like Murder On the Orient Express: They all did it. But we're the only ones who are going to pay for it.

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Democrats Let the Tail Wag the Dog, Fail to Make the Best Case for Reform

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Best Case Health Care Reform, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Medicare-for-All, Rep. Alan Grayson, Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff, Blue Dogs, Pre-Existing Conditions, Tail Wagging the Dog, Denver News

Why haven't Democrats advocated the best case for reform, also the simplest to define and legislate, improving and extending Medicare to all?

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Senate Race in Massachusetts: Obama's Health Care Effort Looks a Lot Like Afghanistan Mess

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Robert Kuttner, Alan Khazei, Health Care Reform, Massachusetts, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Martha Coakley, Afghanistan War, Politics News

The health care battle is beginning to look a lot like Afghanistan -- a pit into which America pours a never ending stream of rationalizations, compromises, resources and effort.

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Hard Labor

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Recovery, Labor Day, Economy, Bob Kuttner, Economic Recovery, Recovery Act, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Second Stimulus, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Health Care, Business News

There are three parts to the woes of American workers -- falling wages, rising unemployment, and insecurity about the future. More robust policies could improve all three.

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Think Again: Dick Cheney's Post Presidency

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Robert Kuttner, Vice President, Karl Rove, Barton Gellman, Bush Administration, George W. Bush, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Torture, Media News

Crossposted with the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman, Danielle Ivory Former President George W. Bush recently mused with the press about...

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7 Days: Kuttner on Economic Crisis, with Huffington, Reagan & Green

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air America, Robert Kuttner, Mark Green, Ron Reagan, Arianna Huffington, 7 Days in America, Politics News

While Republicans throw $700 billion to Wall Street but complain about a $14 billion loan for blue collar workers, Bob Kuttner explains why this should be a transforming economic and political moment for Obama.

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Penny Pritzker, Adam Posen, Alan Murray, James Galbraith, George Soros, Doug & Heidi Rediker, Leo Hindery, Eric Schmidt, Richard Parsons, Tom Gallagher, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Economic Team, Warren Buffet, Kevin Phillips, William Daley, William Donaldson, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Roel Campos, William Bonvillian, Jeffrey Sachs, C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Reich, Antonio Villaraigosa, Joseph Biden, Charlene Barshefsky, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Robert Rubin, Austan Goolsbee, David Bonior, Economic Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Bernard Schwartz, Jason Furhman, Sheila Bair, Anne Mulcahy, Roger Ferguson, Clyde Prestowitz, Sherle Schwenninger, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

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A Fine Mess

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Bailout Plan, Wall Street, Bailout, Economy, Obama, Mccain Populist, Mccain Paulson, Obama Bailout, Obama Wall Street Bailout, Obama Paulson, Home News

The bailout bill will enable Obama to assume one of his favorites stances -- the progressive who bridges differences. He can claim that the unified Democrats dramatically improved a flawed and self-interested Republican bill.

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Watching History Unfold

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, YOYO, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Economy, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Politics News

You hear that implosion reverberating through financial markets? It's the sound of decades of conservative ideology collapsing.

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Little Orphan Fannie

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae Bailout, Housing Crisis, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Barack Obama, Home News

Here is the cycle: government invents something virtuous. The private market takes it over, loses hundreds of billions. Government then bails it out. Surely there is an Obama teachable moment here.

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Conservative Book Marketing vs Progressive Book Marketing

J.S. McDougall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kuttner Obama's Challenge, Robert Kuttner, Progressive Book Club, The Obama Nation, Barack Obama, Jerome Corsi, Media News

When it comes to the mass marketing of ideas, the conservatives have been embarrassing the progressives for years. I attribute this to the simple fact...

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Obama's Challenge, Part I: The Rhetoric

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, Robert Kuttner, Obama Speech, Barack Obama, Politics News

What Obama needs is some of what Biden did last night, speaking personally of what American families worry about

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A Tale of Two Obama Books: Why Do Progressives Still Not Get It?

Jennifer Nix | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Independent Booksellers, Robert Kuttner, Publishing, Obama Nation, Margo Baldwin, Glenn Greenwald, George Lakoff, Chelsea Green, Progressive Media, Jerome Corsi, Obama's Challenge, Technology, Barack Obama, Barnes and Noble, Media News

Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.

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Obama And The End Of Reaganomics

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Bush, Kuttner Chelsea Green Publishers, Obama Fdr, Bush Cynicism, Barack Obama, Kuttner Obama, Obama Economics, George W Bush, Obama Democracy, Kuttner Obama's Challenge, Chelsea Green Publishers, Fdr, Kuttner Amazon, Obama?S Challenge: America?S Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, Bush Economics, Home News

A President Obama's greatest challenge would be to reverse the ideological assumptions of the past three decades and then to use affirmative government to deliver not just economic recovery but a just and balanced economy and a revitalized democracy.

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